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Out of the Shadow
Culture & People: 1 x 60
One percent of the world's population suffers from schizophrenia. That's nearly 60 million people globally. The condition afflicts people from all walks of life, regardless of age, nationality, race or class. One in two patients affected attempt suicide. One in ten succeeds. Filmed over five years, OUT OF THE SHADOW, by award-winning filmmaker Susan Smiley, chronicles the story of her mother Millie who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. With grace and compassion, this intimate film illustrates the painful complexities of severe mental illness and a woefully inadequate public health system set up to deal with it.

Raising Cain NEW!
Special: 1 x 120 or 2 x 60
Even before the tragedy at Columbine High School - and ever since - the subject of boys has been a topic of conversation in schools, among parents and in the media around the world. In RAISING CAIN, Dr Michael Thompson, child psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on raising boys, takes us into the homes and schools of boys of all ages and shows us how we might all learn from what he finds.

Dying With Dignity: Robert's Story NEW!
Special: 1 x 80
The true story of a terminally ill patient who eventually takes his life under Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Our cameras follow Robert Schwartz from the day he gets his pills to the day when he chooses to end his life at home with his family and friends

  

  Affluenza
Special: 1 x 60
Affluenza is a one-hour documentary which examines the high cost of western materialism and how a new trend known as "voluntary simplicity" is encouraging people to redefine the "American Dream."

A Question of Genes: Inherited Risks
Special: 1 x 60, 2 x 60, 1 x 120
A Question of Genes: Inherited Risks explores the issues and ethics surrounding genetic testing through true stories of people at the center of genetic dilemmas.

Children's Hospital
Series: 6 x 60
Real life stories of the staff, parents and patients from one of the nation's preeminent pediatric hospitals, Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital.

The New Heroes NEW!
Series: 4 x 60
Dramatic stories of fourteen daring social entrepreneurs who are undaunted by the chronic challenges of poverty, illness, unemployment, violence and ignorance they see in the world around them.

Normal For Us: The Miller Twins
Culture and Society: 1 x 60
The story of Fritz and Cindy Miller and their five children, two of whom are quadriplegic twin girls. The family's triumphant spirit and their sometimes harrowing, often quiet experiences are revealed in this documentary.
Running Out of Time
Special: 1x60
Running Out of Time takes an informative and entertaining look at the growing problem of "time famine." This provocative one hour-long documentary examines the problem, consequences and solutions to overwork.